Anyone else hear somewhere how Mike White was apparently crying (in a bad way) when he wrote the sequel to School of Rock?

I thought I was having a bad day when my screenplay which I had written by hand was stolen out of the back of my car. At least now I can say ‘it could be worse’. I was reading on ABC News and found out that on Wednesday of this week Francis Ford Coppola (the director of The Conversation, The Godfather, and Apocalypse Now to name a few) had his laptop stolen from his Argentinian home. Since all the news I have been reading on the report seems shaky, I’m not 100% sure as to what was actually stolen from him. The articles all agree that it’s a laptop and video equipment, but what was on the laptop that seems to have conflicting reports. I’ve read articles saying he had edits for two films he was working on, the script to Tetra which he is making with Matt Damon, as well as 15 years of ‘work’. As a writer I could not feel more for Coppola’s plight. Those ‘Non-writers’ would never understand that it’s like someone stole something right out of your head, and you can’t just rewrite. Whenever you write something you are writing it as you are ‘now’.I hope he gets his laptop back in one piece. After all, I would like to see another Coppola film someday…

Below is the trailer for Youth Without Youth which may have also be partially stolen.